All of these posts are leading up to the real set of steps but I think that this background will help you to understand the way to go about really restoring someone to useful fulfilling service after getting the background and heart of the study.
Two of the passages of Scripture that we will have them learn and memorize will be included in this post but I want you to see once again the idea in the Scriptures of replacing your old ways with new ways.
I will only choose a few samplings of the verses so that you get the point and then we will move on to the steps of how to restore a man:
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Put away lying and speak truth is an example of the replacement. Our goal is not that he quit speaking but that he speak rightly.
Eph 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Better that he labor to give to others than that he steal to keep for himself. He has replaced the old way with a new way.
Rather than take the time to show you all of Colossians 3 suffice it to say that you will find the same truth repeated over and over in that chapter also. Put off, put on, Mortify, live.
We must help them have a reason to live. Every desire we have Satan would pervert from the original purpose that God has for it. We must have them think on these things-- what is right etc. Philippians 4:8
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These lessons on restoration and replacement are really valuable. The church rejects people who have fallen without showing mercy. My famiuly has been invilved in restoring people, we 've been hurt and duped and betrayed too by them, its a cost you have to pay...sort of collateral damage.
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